Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...financial hole. Bill No. 1 provided for the collection of an annual 15% tax on the gross advertising revenue of all daily publishers. A newspaper would have to pay such a tax for each office that it operates. Failure to pay would render the publishers in contempt of court, liable to imprisonment...
When Mr. Snowden only pursed his bloodless lips the tighter, Mr. Churchill complained to the Speaker that "the Chancellor is treating this House with insolence and offensiveness ? I may say with supremely insolent indifference and contempt...
Grinning once more as he saw another opening the Chancellor snarled back, "I have been charged with treating His Majesty's Loyal Opposition with contempt. On the contrary, I have done my best to conceal and hide my contempt...
...name then or later famed in Chicago's gangland appeared on the payrolls of the newspapers-Gus Altman, Boston Tommy, the Delehanty brothers. Great wonder it would have been if such under-worldlings had not learned from their smart newspaper employers a lot about organized violence and contempt...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...